[Kreschyboy]

I write because i feel like its unfair for me to keep the places i go all to myself. I have to do my characters justice, because they are in my mind, whether i write about them or not. If i don't tell their story, who will?

[Dazzlinkat]

I write because I can't not write. Like many others, my mind always races with many stories impatient to come alive, all swirling constantly in the seas of my imagination. At times, the frustration of writer's block can be painful. Or, my mind wants to develope two or more stories at once, causing brain strain. Sometimes, confidence in myself sucks the heart from my fingers but then I regain myself. Even so, I still love it all. I just couldn't be me without my writing.

[Laramie]

I write because I love to make up stories. That's it. I can explore places through my characters, I can do things I couldn't do myself. Basically, I can do anything.

I write because I love it.

[lin]

The rent is due.

I'm out of drugs.

My girlfriends is really seriously going to take a walk if I don't start trotting her by some nicer places soon.

Like I need more reasons than those?

[Rocket Sheep]

Er... writing would seem to be the opposite to a solution to all those things given it's ability to waste time and produce no actual income. You really don't like your girlfriend, do you? ;)

I write because it's a hideous obsessive compulsive disorder. Oh sometimes I dress it up as a desire to entertain or connect or be perfect in one tiny area of my life but really... there are better things I could be doing with my time if only I could break the habit.

[Jamza1986]

I actually think writing is a really good way to spend time. Though I agree you can spend so much time over it without much chance of any income! I think it has real value though as the creation of art.

[Rocket Sheep]

No, no, you don't need to call it art until somebody fails to understand it. THEN you tell them it's art. :D

[Jamza1986]

Yeah! I didn't 'break' the vase...I turned it into art! Abstract art.

[lin]

No, no, you don't need to call it art until somebody fails to understand it. THEN you tell them it's art.

Good one, rocket. And you aren't really an artist until you are misunderstood by people so lame you don't want to understand them.

writing would seem to be the opposite to a solution to all those things given it's ability to waste time and produce no actual income.

That's only if you do it right. I've lost the knack.

[Rocket Sheep]

Ohhhhh... you're a copywriter.